Undead Man Lover

The jam started off rough due to a nasty winter storm, which prevented us from meeting on Friday night. We did pitches/team formation thru a combination of mumble, google+, and a wiki. Thankfully the roads cleared up enough to open the jam site on Saturday around 1 pm and we were able to jam in person for the rest of the weekend.

How to Play

As one of the last humans alive, you need to love you some zombies to save the human race.

Revive zombies and help the un-undead escape thru the portal.

Zombies love beating hearts, distract them with yours.

Spells and running take a toll on your heart.

Controls

This game can be played with a keyboard or a gamepad.

Keyboard controls:

Arrow keys – Movement.

Z – Revive the nearest zombie.

X – Repulse nearby zombies.

C – Meditate to calm your heart.

Gamepad controls:

[Left Stick] – Movement.

[A] – Revive the nearest zombie.

[B] – Repulse nearby zombies.

[X] – Meditate to calm your heart.

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Concept

The theme was [sound of a beating heart], and we had initially been stuck in a rut creating ideas that were just ‘it’s like X but’… ‘ you manage heartrate’ / ‘in a heart’ / ‘to the beat’. After a few of these, Nick and I threw some heart-related words into the venerable madlib generator and went thru the list.

“Undead Man Lover” was one that immediately clicked, although some of the off-theme ones looked good too (maybe for a future jam…). Our final game ended up surprisingly close to the initial pitch, with only a shift from a post-apocalyptic cityscape to a fantasy setting due to art availability.